Price shuts out Angels; Rays hit four homers

Apr 25, 2012 - 5:12 AM
St. Petersburg, FL (Sports Network) - David Price went the distance for his
second career shutout and the Tampa Bay Rays blanked the Los Angeles Angels of
Anaheim, 5-0, in the opener of a three-game series at Tropicana Field.

Price (3-1) threw 80 of his 119 pitches for strikes and gave up only five hits
and one walk while striking out six.

"He really had it going on," Rays manager Joe Maddon said about Price. "There
was no rush to his delivery and he stayed in a good tempo pretty much all
night long."

Offensively, the Rays got solo home runs from Desmond Jennings, Carlos Pena,
Luke Scott and B. J. Upton, who also knocked in a run with a sacrifice fly.
Tampa Bay has won three straight and five of their last six contests.

Torii Hunter had two hits for the Angels, who have lost five of their last
seven and fell to 6-11 on the season.

Ervin Santana (0-4) was tagged for all five runs on eight hits and one walk
while fanning four over five-plus frames.

Tampa Bay opened the scoring in its first at-bat when Jennings took a 3-2
middle-in fastball from Santana deep down the left-field line and just over
the wall.

The Rays extended their lead to 2-0 in the fourth after Scott hammered a
hanging slider from Santana about four rows back in the right-field seats

It was 3-0 for the Rays after Upton led off the fifth by blasting an 0-1
Santana fastball deep over the wall in left field.

The Rays capped the scoring with two runs in the sixth to make it 5-0. Pena
led off the frame with a deep drive into the right-field seats and Evan
Longoria followed with a single before stealing second, moving to
third on an infield single by Scott, and coming home on a sacrifice fly by
Upton.

Price cruised through the final three innings -- only allowing three
baserunners -- and got Mark Trumbo to fly out weakly to Jennings in left field
to end the game.

"He knew what to do with the lead. He really pounded the zone," Angels manager
Mike Scioscia said about Price.

Game Notes

The Angels opened a six-game road trip on Tuesday. They will visit the
Cleveland Indians for three games beginning on Friday...The Angels fell to
36-29 all time at Tropicana Field...The Rays improved to 6-1 at home to start
a season for the first time in club history...Pena's home run was his 1,000th
career hit...Tampa Bay went 1-for-3 with runners in scoring position and
stranded three, while Los Angeles was 1-for-3 with runners in scoring position
and left five on base.

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Luke Scott advances to third on a wild pitch. Runner on third with two outs and Jose Molina at the plate.